Course Outline
Introduction to Python Programming
- Executing Python code
- Leveraging Python development tools, including IDEs and command-line utilities
- Utilising Python and iPython shells, as well as iPython Notebook
Data Types and Operations
- Integers and floats – likely unnecessary
- Strings and bytes – likely unnecessary
- Tuples and lists
- Dictionaries and ordered dictionaries
- Sets and frozen sets
Organising and Distributing Code
- Building modules and packages
- Sharing code via repositories
Object Oriented and Functional Programming
- Defining and implementing functions and classes
- Enhancing functions and classes using decorators
- Exploring meta-classes
Error Handling and Testing
- Catching and raising exceptions
- Creating and running tests (doc tests and unit tests)
- Verifying test code coverage
Managing Files and Directories
- Accessing various file types and understanding file handling concepts
- Creating, reading, updating, and deleting files (covering regular text files, CSV, as well as Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel files)
- Using Regular Expressions to extract data from text files
- Creating and removing directories, and listing or searching for files
Requirements
There are no prerequisites.
Testimonials (7)
everything was perfect
Florin Vrincianu
Course - Python Programming Fundamentals
The fact that the trainer could guide us and correct if needed and explained what was wrongly done
Roxana - Emilia Zamfir
Course - Python Programming Fundamentals
Felt like a rounded introduction to python, giving me the confidence to immediately tackle some basic level progs before attempting something more substantial
Graham - Quantum Detectors Ltd
Course - Python Programming Fundamentals
I liked that I could ask questions and Abhi did answer all of them providing excellent examples.
Bozena - New College Durham
Course - Python Programming Fundamentals
Everything was OK. Trainer very well prepared and I really enjoyed the course.
Gelep Dragos
Course - Python Programming Fundamentals
The course was straight forward, intuitive, easy to follow, the exercises covered the subjects discussed beforehand.
Alexandru - BRD
Course - Python Programming Fundamentals
The knowledgeability.